Posted on 09/09/2008 10:22:15 AM PDT by Brookhaven
The OTM (Out of Touch Media) has been making a big deal of Palin's statement that we should pray for our troops.
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
The is been widely misquoted (who would've thought?) to imply Palin implied our troops should be on a task from God. Anybody that has actually spent any significant time in a church would understand she was praying our troops missing was in line with God's plan (not saying that she knew God's plan.)
What they also leave out is our leaders have a long history of this exact type of prayer. Below is FDS's D-Day radio address. Abraham Lincoln was also known to have prayed that the war he was fighting was following God's will. Far from being outside the mainstream, Palin's sentiments are in line with our great leaders of the past.
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My Fellow Americans:
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
Republicans pray with concern. The left goes to black churches and speak in black voices to get their attention.
The left is bonkers... leading that pack is the hollywood elitist. Oprah, Whoopie, Barbara Walters, on and on the list goes.
What does it say about the left when they propose that the act of praying for our troops and for this nation is an act to be condemned or at least of a very suspicious nature?
Wow! Praying that God's plan will become our plan. That God would so guide our hearts and minds that what we plan would itself naturally be God's plan. That could indeed be revolutionary. Note to RATS: are you telling us that your plans are NOT guided by the Almighty?
Shows how much the left really “supports” our troops.
She says a prayer fo them and is excoriated....not only that, but her own son is serving.
The left really “supports” the troops. I am not even sure how they can say this with a straight face.
The assumption being made is that we ARE doing God’s will, hence on His mission. Regardless of any assumption, He is the One in control - not any of us mere mortals.
Remarkable. Just think, 64 years ago even a dyed in the wool socialist like FDR actually knew how to pray in a manner that anyone spending regular time at a christian church would recognize.
Fast forward to 9/11/2001. A little less than half of the congresscritters were visibly stumbling over the lyrics to “God Bless America”. You remember - the ones (including the current speaker) that had the panicked deer-in-the-headlights look as they were “singing” (more like mumbling) out the lyrics of a song familiar to people that love the Lord Jesus and this country. The ones that could’nt sing the song? That’s right, the ‘libs - democrats.
I would love to see the presidential candidates, right before the debates, put into a secure, miked up room, and film them them as they sing along (or try to) with the music of God Bless America, with no lyrics, teleprompter, or sheet music to help them. Then play back the footage at the end of the debate.
no atheists in foxholes.........
There’s nothing in the topmost prayer in the article that you wouldn’t hear from a military chaplain. Or many regular clergymen, depending on where you go. The idea that God plays a role in people’s lives and endeavors is likely an alien concept to many Obama supporters, though.
Praying for our troops daily.
An audio is available on the web which is both touching and a powerful reminder of what America was before the Far Left began to censor religious speech out of the public square. It is even more powerful to hear than to read.
Perhaps criticism of Palin will, once and for all, force us to look at who best understood our Constitution--today's liberal judges and Far Left censors, or America's Founders and leaders for over 200 years!
That’s Franklin, of course! Gremlins and such. Sorry.
“We’re on a mission from God.”
Elwood Blues
Liberals do NOT believe in God.
Some may claim they do but only to make them feel good.
LIBERALS want to play god.
They try their best to CUT HIM OUT OF THE PICTURE, sinde they believe they know BEST. LOL!
Yes, but a “preacher” who damns his own country, they ask, “what’s the big deal?”. Strange times.
Yes, but a “preacher” who damns his own country, they ask, “what’s the big deal?”. Strange times.
"...Within 701 words Lincoln mentions God fourteen times, quotes the Bible four times and invokes prayer three times.” 10 Later, Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase gave the Bible to Mrs. Lincoln, marking the pages from Isaiah 5:27-28 which the President kissed:
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows best, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, their wheels like a whirlwind." 11
"...It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the seat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."4
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech
Cordially,
This is the same level of ignorance that considers the phrase "God Bless America" to be a command. But maybe from the mouth of Rev. Wright, "God D*mn American" is in fact a command!
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, by Jim Powell
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression's destructive effects and propping up the country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents of all time. But would the Great Depression have been so catastrophic had the New Deal never been implemented?
In FDR's Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. You'll discover in alarming detail how FDR's federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including:
How Social Security actually increased unemployment
How higher taxes undermined good businesses
How new labor laws threw people out of work
And much more
This groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisers. In today's turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, it's more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it.
I agree with youo. This controversy is yet another instance that reveals the inability of (some) Americans to distinguish the indicative from the subjunctive mood. S Palin was expressing a WISH —in the subjunctive mood; it was not the case that she is declaring that the strategy IS God’s will. Rather, she is expressing a wishe that it MAY BE God’s will.
This is the same level of ignorance that considers the phrase “God Bless America” to be a command. But maybe from the mouth of Rev. Wright, “God D*mn American” is in fact a command!
I have a pet peeve about that ... it should ALWAYS be
“may”,
as in May God Bless America (my home sweet home ... ) :)
NEVER “God Bless America”.
We should ALWAYS ASK Him;
not demand Him to “Bless America”.
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